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It wasn’t difficult in the least to find Lewis Agaro

David simply went from bar to bar, and found him in a small but rustic place near Mallory Square

He sat down on a bar stool next to the sliaro turned, took one look at him and started to bolt

David set a hand on the kid’s on the bar

"I’m not here to take you down," he said

Lewis looked around He was looking for his older brother, David thought But the brother didn’t appear to be here

Lewis sat A barmaid came up, and David ordered a beer

"You’d be a blind and deaf man not to know about the murder," David said, his tone conversational "And I’ how it feels You were the last one with her She ht have been a prostitute and a stripper, but she was a hu and you’d definitely been attracted to her Even though the cops were trying to bust you for so that she did"

The kid let out a breath, picked up his drink and sed down the re at his throat "She was cool," he said "She-she had balls She ripped me off, and I knew that when I woke up, but she didn’t take all one back to the club I would have called her out on it, but I swear, I wouldn’t have hurt her" He turned to David then, and he did look tortured

"I don’t think that you killed her, kid," David said

Lewis Agaro let out a long breath "I didn’t I swear I didn’t I had a night with her like no other I woke up and one I went back to the club, but she wasn’t there Then-they found her body"

"Did you see anyone that night? Did she talk to you about anyone?"

Agaro frowned, shaking his head He was thoughtful "She-well, we talked about the fact that I had alht it was funny, and she wasn’t afraid-even when I told her the cops thought it was her She said she knew her way around town, and she knew her away around the law, real well You-you don’t understand She wasn’t a bad person She was cool She was like one of those folks on that TV show-Survivor! She wasn’t like all-sex She was affectionate, she had feelings"

"I’ to arrestto think that I did it Billy-et the hell off the island Billy-" He paused, wincing "Billy didn’t even know that I’d hired her for the night He wound up hanging out with so with him-cause ere stopped in the street by that Neanderthal the other night and accused of robbing hi to be arrested, Lewis, but they will bring you in for questioning Just tell them the truth You’re a kid froed the death scene at the museum The cops aren’t stupid They know that" He pulled a cocktail napkin toward him and reached in his pocket for a pen He scribbled down a na ood attorney down here-a criuy"

"I can’t afford an attorney"

"Tell him I referred you He’s older than hell, better than anyone else you’ll ever meet I know-he stood by ht That’s over with, so… Think Please, think Is there anything else you can tellThere was this guy He’d been upstairs-during the show He tried to get Stella to talk to hi at hi to getI think that he knew that she had prouy look like?" David asked, though he was sure he knew the answer

"Skinny, kind of thin face, about your age Ah, hell, I’d seen hi one of the ghost tours, and he was the guy leading it Helike, ‘You’re cursed!’"

David nodded "Thanks"

He set a hand on the kid’s shoulder and rose

Danny Zigler

But where the hell was he now? David was afraid that he wasn’t going to find Danny He still didn’t believe that Danny Zigler was capable ofdown the kind of job that could account for the money he had at his apart-maybe he even knehy and how Stella had died The police would find the money in Danny’s apart to keep to himself

He still had to find Danny He was just afraid that he wasn’t going to find hi in the quiet of the library,if her heart was thu because her caller ID read David Beckett, or just because she had been so startled

"Hey," she said "How’s it going?"

"Interesting Danny Zigler is nowhere to be found"

"Well, he’ll turn up, I’m certain"

David didn’t reply to her statement "Where are you?" he asked instead